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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
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Pages: 404
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Peter Lang
The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the systems ex
Language: en
Pages: 235
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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